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While he ended the day with three more catches than Root, he still has a catch percentage about 77%, which sits below the format average.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
He lost out to Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali - who secured 45% of the vote to his 33% - but the Green vote share was up by 22 percentage points on the 2024 general election.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Canada’s employment rate, the number of employed people as a percentage of the population aged 15 years and older, slipped to 60.6% from 60.8% in August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
For example, its investment in live programming helps spur significant subscription sign-ups, even though it represents a small percentage of watch time on the streaming service, the company has said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
But again, although most of the seeds would germinate after one year, after two years the percentage would decline, and after three or four they would not do well at all.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
“I think a lot of advisers misread the percentages and the message that goes with them,” Goldie said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Labor day bookings are up 17%, despite average hotel and airfares both rising by double-digit percentages compared to last year, Wynn says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Elementary schools by and large do manage to teach the basic algorithms for multiplication and division, addition and subtraction, as well as methods for handling fractions, decimals, and percentages.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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